Any of you using a wireless card for your gaming pc?
Yes and no, I have an older router that I have in bridge mode hooked up to my PC via Ethernet. I come very close to maxing out my 300 from Shaw. Latency doesn't appear to be an issue at least for me.
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AMD warned last week that its chips are experiencing performance issues in Windows 11, and now Microsoft’s first update to its new OS has reportedly made the problems worse. TechPowerUp reports that it’s seeing much higher latency, which means worse performance, after the Windows 11 update went live yesterday.
AMD and Microsoft found two issues with Windows 11 on Ryzen processors. Windows 11 can cause L3 cache latency to triple, slowing performance by up to 15 percent in certain games. The second issue affects AMD’s preferred core technology, that shifts threads over to the fastest core on a processor. AMD says this second bug could impact performance on CPU-reliant tasks.
I haven't noticed any serious lag but I just installed Windows 11 on the weekend and haven't done anything intensive. I did have my computer freeze because of an issue with TPM though.
Ryzen 7 5800X on Windows 11, build 22000.258. Been fine on my gaming rig, and that's even considering I'm too lazy to shut down my virtual machine while playing games.
Acer Aspire 5 A515-44-R93G, 15.6" Full HD, AMD Ryzen 3 4300U Mobile Processor with Radeon Graphics, 4GB DDR4, 128GB NVMe SSD, WiFi 5, HD Webcam, Fingerprint Reader, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 10 S
I am going to by 8 GB of RAM to add to the laptop. I'm confused by what Mhz Ram I should be buying, I see a bunch of different numbers out there (3200, 2666) Which one should I go for? I will just order the extra Ram off of Amazon at the same time.
^Those Acers are hard to get into to upgrade anything. I had to pry the plastic clamshell off and unplug tiny ribbon cables to get to the hard drive bay on a several year old Acer that looks similar to the linked one.
As for the RAM question, if you can find out what type of RAM is shipped with it you can buy a matching 4 GB SODIMM and save some money since most laptops have two RAM slots. 3200MHZ with a lower CAS latency would be ideal, however the laptop board may not support it and worse case will not work and best case it would run at a lower frequency.
Seems to say there's 2 available memory slots and it's 2666 or that 3200 would work as well. I would guess a matched pair would be faster than a mismatched but for this level of laptop I doubt you'd notice a difference, though 16GB would be better than 12GB, but I guess you have to decide if it's worth the extra $40 for an additional RAM card.
Opening it up on those plastic clamshell kinds are annoying but taking it easy and watching a youtube video of it before should make it doable without damaging it.
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Seems to say there's 2 available memory slots and it's 2666 or that 3200 would work as well. I would guess a matched pair would be faster than a mismatched but for this level of laptop I doubt you'd notice a difference, though 16GB would be better than 12GB, but I guess you have to decide if it's worth the extra $40 for an additional RAM card.
Opening it up on those plastic clamshell kinds are annoying but taking it easy and watching a youtube video of it before should make it doable without damaging it.
Does that mean I could remove the 4BG ram stick the laptop comes with and replace it with a 8GB stick as well as add an 8GB stick to the extra slot?
An update on my external USB sound card issue, I did switch it to USB 3 ports and the problem has disappeared. So not sure if there's a driver issue or a hardware issue with my USB 2 ports but I guess it works now. I don't really see the same issue with my mouse (though it does randomly take extra long to wake, so I might switch that just to see), though I did have extreme USB issues when trying to play Battlefront II for some reason. My mouse would disconnect, I'd hear 3-4 USB disconnect sounds, then a bunch of connect sounds and my mouse would come back. 3-4 minutes later same thing.
Alder Lake reviews coming in look pretty impressive. Beats AMD pretty much across the board in everything except in power consumption (Alder Lake still consumes a lot of power though less than the previous generation).
Competition is back.
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Alder Lake reviews coming in look pretty impressive. Beats AMD pretty much across the board in everything except in power consumption (Alder Lake still consumes a lot of power though less than the previous generation).
Competition is back.
I'm curious to see if they have an integrated GPU answer to Vega. There are some mini-Ryzen PC's available that have very impressive gaming performance, I'm planning on building one myself for an all-in-one emulation system next year when the next generation Ryzen and DDR5 are available. If Intel has significantly upped their GPU game though I might have to consider them
Desktop iGPU is still the legacy Intel UHD graphics instead of Iris Xe.
About time, Intel. AMD has been stealing their lunch money for a while now.
A quick search suggests 15% - 45% performance increases for the new Alder Lake Intel i7 over the Ryzen 7 5800X (which is what I'm running). I'm not too bothered though, my bottleneck is most certainly not my 5800X these days, it's 100% my GPU, and those are still a nuisance to get.
